GaggleAMP, dlvr.it, Buffer, Viraltag can be huge time-savers

Auto-sharing is an important tool in the social media management toolbox. Having convenient sharing buttons next to your website’s content and blog posts eliminates the friction that can cause people who love a piece of content not to bother sharing it. And when you use social media to make announcements or update followers of your brand, auto-sharing tools make it easier to get the information out there and in front of those who are interested in your products and services so they can consume or share the information with others.

A hypothetical social sharing scenario

Suppose I’m writing blog content for an important new client. It’s not enough to write a well-researched blog post and leave it at that. I need to make sure that as many interested parties as possible see that blog post in hopes they’ll want to learn more.

It’s not easy to find time to post and promote announcements on multiple social media sites, and the client certainly doesn’t have time to do it. That’s where auto-sharing tools come in. Here are a few of the tools and platforms you should consider. Continue reading →

Go beyond bulk uploading with SocialOomph’s suite of tools

There are some Web apps that have withstood the test of time — tools that I still use and sometimes abuse. Let’s look at what SocialOomph offers through its Pro account.

Though there are quite a few features that SocialOomph offers, I use it for a couple of things that it does very well: prospecting folks to follow on Twitter based on the keywords as well as the hashtags they use in their profiles and tweets, and also queuing up loads and loads of evergreen bulk tweets that can seed my personal (as well as my clients’) Twitter feeds over time while my team and I are busy being much more responsive and timely with the tweets that we add by hand when we’re online and active. SocialOomph makes this easy and a little more flexible than the other tools I’ve used. Continue reading →